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Øystein Kvaal Østerbø - 6th place on the tough Long-distance

6th place on the tough Long-distance

Today the Long distance with mass-start was held in the European Championship in Ski-orienteering. I did a good race, and thought I was among the first runners the whole course. But it was not so easy to know where you was in the field because of the forking, and a…
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group of a few runners had managed to beak away already after the first butterfly-loop. I saw six runners around one minute in front of me on the open areas at the end of the course. To the last control I managed to pass Gruzdev, and finished as 6th runner, one minute behind Erik Rost from Sweden. Eivind Tonna was 10th and Øyvind Lund on a great 12th place. Tatiana Vlasova won again the wonemÂ’s class, and Marte Reenaas got a strong 5th place. ResultsTodayÂ’s course was on parts of the long-distance-map from JWOC 2005, but with the first and…

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